The Romanic Review

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A quarterly journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures. Articles cover all periods of French, Italian, and Spanish-language literature. Published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University.

Tout va etre sens dessus dessous. (La Peste, p. 1285)(1) I In the introduction to a collection of articles devoted to La Peste published in 1977, Brian Fitch described the novel as "le texte romanesque de Camus qui a le moins retenu l'attention...

In The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Brian Stock grapples with the thorny problem of defining literacy.(1) Although most of us think of it as the ability to read and write,...

The argument of this paper is threefold. First, to the extent that Western poetry since the pre-Socratics discourses on human affairs, this discourse combines philosophical insights with perceptions of an everyday world in terms of primary spatial...

We learn through other examples which psychoanalysis has brought to light that the pressing desire in the unconscious for some irreplaceable thing often resolves itself into an endless series in actuality--endless for the very reason that the satisfaction...

Jehan Bodel's radically secular play, Li Jeus de Saint Nicolai, opens with a 114-line prologue recited by a Preacher.(1) The predominantly spiritual ideology that informs this prologue is in no way remarkable: all but a handful of its lines narrate...

The modern novel may never have had any greater enemy than the concept of reference. After a century dominated by the realist tradition--Stendhal's "roman: c'est un miroir qu'on promene le long d'un chemin"(1)--naturalism had became a constraint to...